The Venus Project On Fox News 7 (if only...)

[indimuse]

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[DeSwiss]

1. K&R

http://thevenusproject.com/">The Venus Project

"At the beginning of World War II the US had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was no, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources.

It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war. In a resource-based economy all of the world's resources are held as the common heritage of all of Earth's people, thus eventually outgrowing the need for the artificial boundaries that separate people. This is the unifying imperative." ~ Jacques Fresco

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. The more I look into 'The Venus Project', the more I think it's a couple of people indulging

and old man by cooing over his drawings (which all look like 1960s sci-fi covers, and which have no practicality at all - he seems to like to place a lot of his buildings in the middle of the ocean for no apparent reason), and saying "everything will be abundant!", with no actual plan to achieve anything more than make a movie.

Seriously, here is their plan:

1: write some books
2: make a movie
3: build a city from scratch
4: build a theme park

When asked how this city will be built, they say "by machines". Luckily for them, no-one seems to have asked "how will these city-building machines be built?"

The similarity of their above plan to:

Phase 1 : Collect Underpants
Phase 2 : ?
Phase 3 : Profit

is quite astounding.

Here is part of their FAQ:

# What are the first steps taken toward within global resource based economy?

After agreement is attained by nations to move toward unification and sharing of the earth's resources, a global survey of available resources, technical personnel, production plants, arable land etc. has to be done to provide us with sufficient information in order to ascertain the parameters of social design. During the initial phase the cybernated system being developed will serve as a data bank to tell us what is available. This will enable us to proceed with the design. The major initial task will be to provide food, water, shelter medical care and clean sources of energy.

During the transition, scarcity regions will be provided with heat concentrators for cooking and sterilizing water. Food for those areas can be dehydrated and compressed to save shipping space. We would extrude many food products and consist of high protein foods also containing most of the necessary nutrients to sustain those in the underdeveloped regions. The packaging will be biodegradable and may double as non-contaminating fertilizers. Regions without arable land will use hydroponic farms, land-based fish farms, and sea farming.

http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project-introduction/faq

This is bad science fiction - the kind that appeared in 1930s pulp novels, 1950s TV series, and 1960s cartoons. The solution to food shortages is given as "well, give them high protein foods". Shit, they may as well say "let them eat cake" for all the practicality or detail of this. If they'd actually pointed to real-life disaster relief agencies who do send emergency rations to famine areas, I might believe they have actually studied something; but this is the answer to "What are the first steps taken", not "what happens if there's a famine somewhere?" For some reason, it's important to tell us now that the food is 'extruded'. Why - because food that was stirred wouldn't fit the bill? I think the old man is stuck with a 1960s vision of astronauts squeezing food from tubes, and thinks that squeezing it is 'high tech'.

It's a random, rambling collection of wishes that just can't be called a 'plan' at all.